For the Chinese sports fans, the North American professional league is the most familiar NBA, but in fact, NHL's influence far more than the NBA. The world's tallest and largest ice hockey league is the best ice hockey player from 21 countries and regions around the world, and the draft system, which began in 1963, is open to all 18-20-year-old ice hockey players in the world NHL Coins. This year's 7 rounds of the show produced a total of 211 lucky, it is learned to participate in the draft of the ice hockey players nearly a thousand people, the competition is very intense. In accordance with the NHL team's annual draft of the practice, each team has about 20 scouts to assess the performance of these young players, after layers of screening and hundreds of meetings, for the list of personnel into the draft, the team can be described as bamboo in the chest.

NBA draft is different, NHL draft in addition to the number of rounds of participation in the number of players, the selected players will not immediately go into battle, but first in the youth league exercise for several years. The first round of the selected young players to become the main chance of the main team, and the first two to seven rounds of the selected players is not no chance, because the teams in the draft after the need to exchange according to their location, and In the years of youth league play will also make the back of the selected players have the same opportunity to upgrade, so these players up space is also huge, in the history of NHL, many star players are from the first 2 to 7 rounds.

The New York Islanders in the 6th round to 172 overall pick, Song Andong will not immediately play the team, he will continue to play in the current school, and strive for access to American universities, in the completion of four years of school And then choose according to their own situation whether to join the professional league. In general, Song An Dong this selected defender talent, need a longer time in the low-level league play, as short as 4 to 5 years, long 6 to 7 years. It should be noted that, although the New York Islanders are not NHL's strong teams, but also created the league's dynasty, and now the team's boss is the Chinese philanthropist Wang Jialian, which for Song Andong as soon as possible into the league is a good news.